By PASTOR MARK MOLINA
Living Waters Church
Pastor Mark Molina
Special to the NEWS
What happens once God has called us? Is that divine moment just for the sake of making us feel good? Or is there a divine intention to that sacred moment? Does His call on our lives mark the beginning or the end of our journey of faith? Beloved, it is only the beginning. The call is only the initiation and launching point of where God will lead.
“Come now, therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring My people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.” (Exodus 3:10 NKJV). Can you imagine Moses’ dismay? He had just met God face to face in the burning bush. Now God is telling him to go back to the place he has been hiding from for the last 40 years. He is being sent back to Egypt.
Remember, Moses fled Egypt as a fugitive from justice. He had managed to get himself into top billing on Pharaoh’s “Most Wanted” list for killing and trying to hide the body of an Egyptian taskmaster. Now he had been tending sheep for the last 40 years in the desert. As far as Moses was concerned he would never go back to Egypt. But God tells him, “…I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring My people…out.” What a shock this must have been to Moses.
Isn’t it amazing the type of people that God calls to the ministry? He calls people no one else believes in. Most importantly He leads those that He calls back to the place that they been running from. He leads them back to the place of their fear so they will know that His process of redemption is complete. The place of fear now becomes their place of faith.
Who better to lead the children of Israel out of Egypt? Moses knew the language, the culture, the laws, the paradigms, the people, the land, and (most importantly) the route to where God wanted to lead them. Moreover, Moses was finally in a place to lead out by God’s Spirit and plan rather than his own spontaneous, carnal nature. Moses just had to truly believe that God had indeed made all things new.
“But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?” (Exodus 3:11 NKJV). Our sin has consequences. It affects our confidence in many ways – and the truth is that it should. It needs to bring us to the place of brokenness so we can be healed.
Staying broken is not the plan of God. God wants us to learn to trust in Him and not ourselves. Moses was led to the desert to lose his confidence in himself so he could find his confidence in God. Remember: he killed the Egyptian because he knew he was called to deliver his people. He didn’t have the maturity or understanding at that time to know how God was going to do it.
“So He said, “I will certainly be with you. And this shall be a sign to you that I have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain.” (Exodus 3:12 NKJV). God was making it very clear at this point. He was the one sending Moses. Moses was not going by his own power and might. He was being sent to bring the children of Israel to the place God desired for them to serve Him.
As a Pastor I can clearly identify with Moses. It is easy for us to get caught up with what we think we are or what we think we can do when we believe the call of God is on our lives. It is easy to confuse our agenda as or replace it with God’s agenda. I believe that can be the same for any of us – it is not confined to those in ministry.
Now that God has called you, where does He want to lead you? Are you ready for the revelation with the New Year upon us? Ask Him for it.
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